Loose Wheel

Finding a reason
A moment true
Still the thoughts
Rattling around
Loose wheel
Incessant yet
Pushed back
Hovering silently

Alight

The hills aflame above me
Trees multi hued with falls changes
Set further alight with low autumnal sun
Rising slowly to begin the day

My Secret

I want to share a secret with you
These conspiratorial tones
Telling you with certainty, I can fly
Not with wings on the air like a bird
Not in an aluminum tube with jet engines
But on metal blades over frozen water
Flying just as sure, the snick snick
Of the steel on ice it's own music
The air rushing past cold and dry
Like an arctic wind blowing from the north
Freedom from the days stress, the weeks
Travails, dropping away with each stride
Pushing harder and longer until you see
My secret, that I can fly 

To Be

Sometimes you see things you wish you hadn't
You wish had stayed hidden or your eyes closed
Yet, moving through this world unaware, unseeing
Is no life at all, is but existing in a shell unable
To see the beauty, to see the amazing in the everyday
Better to be observant but not just the observer
To participate, to be alive, to be in the moment

Altered

I may never be able
To fully let go, holding on
Hoping that some day
Our worlds will collide again
Happy in the knowledge
That your life is good
Making each day of mine
All it can possibly be
Friends in our own way
Unique in what we have
Affected in such a way
I was altered forever

The Coming

Rain falling softly on red/gold leaves
It's steady tattoo, a drumbeat calling
Time upon the neighbors steel roof
Drowsy mornings resonance begging
For a crackling fire, heat warming
It's intermittent light an orange glow
Just enough to illuminate and free
You from cold restraints of coming winter

In The End

I will always
Love you
Even if I can't
Love you
My life has gone
Back to what it was
My happiness
Is a different one
But in the end
Always

I'm still your biggest cheerleader. Even if it's not needed.

Once

I would give nearly anything
To not be confused to not be hurt
Even though things may never be
How they once were, glorious
I was becoming used to how they were
Happy to still have you in some way
Hope may always hold a place
But I will try to do things as you want

Pain

This pain, can't last forever
Or can it,  will it lessen
Then drift away or could
It stay, gnawing at me
Like a rodent making a hole
I still laugh,  I still smile
There is so much good around
But always there in the
Background noise is the pain.